One who refuses to comply with the orders of the Supreme Lord is granted the opportunity to enjoy existence in the material world. Rather than restraining the conditioned being, the Lord provides the latter with the opportunity to enjoy life in this world, so that, through tried and tested experience, he comes to understand after many, many rebirths or reincarnations, that surrender to God is the sole duty of all beings. Since everything depends on the will of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, our one and only duty is to surrender to Him and seek His protection.

Incarnate souls who originally belong to the spiritual world are sent to the material universe because they have become envious of the Lord.

But the truth is that the main reason why God expelled some souls from His kingdom was because they rejected the service of love and devotion that they had to offer Him, an eternal duty that all souls perform. Thus they had to fall immediately into the prison of this material world and accept a material body.

The degradation of all those who live in the material cosmos, on whatever planet, is due to their insubordination and forgetfulness of their relationship with God. We are all, in truth, the eternal servants of Krishna. Our duty is therefore to serve Him with love and devotion. This is the perfection of existence.

It is the desire to dominate material nature that plunges the spiritual being into it.

It is only because he desires to dominate material nature that he is immersed in it. Such a desire has no place in the spiritual world, which is pure. In the world of matter, everyone struggles hard to find new “prey” of pleasure for his body. It should be pointed out that the body is the product of the senses, which are the instruments available to the incarnated spiritual being to satisfy his desires. And the whole, material body and “sense-instruments”, is offered to the incarnated spiritual being by material nature according to his desires and past acts.

But what is perfect renunciation?

Renunciation means to distance oneself from one's father, mother, brothers and sisters, wife and children, in order to extend one's love to the Supreme Lord on the one hand, and to all beings without exception on the other.

It is to renounce one's social status, to detach oneself from all one's material possessions and to opt for total celibacy, in order to love God, to abandon oneself to Him and to serve Him with love and devotion. This is perfect renunciation.

The Eternal Supreme replies: Man can taste the fruits of renunciation through simple self-control, detachment from worldly things and disinterest in material pleasures. This is in fact the highest perfection of renunciation.